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Newly discovered Pirelli fish and a rare (because they are not widely known) Guy Underwood fish. Plus US figurals are expanding.

With over 150 Pirelli figures listed, just 38 are illustrated with only catalogue images. It does not mean they are scarce but just not typical of Pirelli so would not otherwise have been recognised without a label.

Scotland's Glass is seeing several hundred Caithness and Edinburgh Crystal items added in the last few weeks and many hundreds more will be added in coming weeks. A lot of articles are being prepared by other authors.

Ysart Glass has been having corrections made but no additions lately - although a number of new pages on Moncrieff are nearing completion.

The Glass Catalogue and Glass-Study just keep growing,

Overall, I have added about 10,000 images to the various sites in the past year. A similar number are queued for editing and uploading.

Contents of the Glass-Study - June 2008 - approximately 1,700 pages and an unknown number of fully restored images.For the Glass Catalogue contents see the site front page http://www.glasscatalogue.com/ (Currently 2,000 individual items organised by multiple categories not as page scans! All images are restored and most are 600 pixels on longest side.)

English text - about 1052 pagesn.b. (INDEX ONLY) means that a text index with pagination has been built, this is only intended for finding references. Images are described. - you still have to buy the book to get meaning!Cameo Incrustation 1988 (INDEX) Paul Jokelson 40 pagesThe Glass Cone (INDEX) Nos 011 - 24 complete 1986-89 112 pages

Pottery Gazette & Glass Trade Review Magazines (Mostly glass parts only but all pottery adverts named.)1935 August 105 pages1949 December 57 pages1950 January 86 pages40+ more issues available to be digitised.

Despite much of this year being taken over by the move to France and making our home habitable whilst living in it! And the preparations for Scotland's 400th Anniversary - researching all the active glass businesses in Scotland and getting Museums on board... not to mention getting a book written (Fortunately I got out of doing that!)

I have just updated the Glass Zoo with a lot of new material, over 800 different figurines: Lampwork, Cast, Moulded, Pressed, Blown... etc. and 3,000 images.

I have also set up the Glass Study Association ( www.glass-study.org ) a non-profit company that is dedicated to the preservation of glass information on the web and the purpose of my paysites - fuller details of this will appear in the near future.

The Glass-Study.com has suffered from the deprivations of my time but I am working on listing a huge database of Czech Glass knowledge by US author Deborah Truitt - this will take many months to complete but will provide a significant resource for glass researchers in the future.

Scotlands's Glass has had a major upgrade that stopped additions for 5 months and has taken a lot of effort as well as costing me hundreds of Euros - a bit difficult with no income... but lots of dedication A few individuals have helped with the finances - thank you folks. But recently updates have restarted, despite having to still fix 4,000 descriptions in the Glass Images section :mrgreen: with the 400th Anniversary site also to consider... resources have been stretched but main credit for that goes to David Encill who also contributed a lot of his time for this and designing the Directory of Scottish Glassmakers that I wrote. (With a little help from hundreds of others!). Bonhams Auctioneers financed the printing and hopefully others will cover the distribution costs.

As a side effect of this you will see a lot of features on Scottish Glass in antiques publications in coming months, first already in Collect-It magazine. Also in Scottish Press, magazines and at least BBC Radio so far.

If you want a copy of the brochure posted to you, we do need you to pay the postage so please get in touch. However, if you are in the SGS you will get one in January (If you buy a copy of Brian Blench and Shiona Airlies new book direct from the publisher or on eBay you get one anyway.) They will also be available in Scottish and Glass Museums from January. We will be asking other glass organisations to distribute to their members so no need to ask for one if you belong to such an organisation (feel free to send us contact details for any society you belong too). We will probably make a pdf for downloading too.

Now if you have never considered collecting Scottish glass or glass figurines, now is the time to gain the insights! :gfit: